Picture Perfect

Its not often you take a picture of your camera, but RGB900 made one out of LEGO.

I like all the details such as the strap, flash and display screen.

Its hard to tell in the picture, but I used the very same technique for the strap of the guitar hero controller that I made several years ago.

This Fett means Business

Kevin Ryhal has created a Midi-Mood Scale Boba Fett that is fully pose-able.

Pretty darned awesome!

SEALUG at Emerald City Comic Con

BrickCon isn’t the only time you can see awesome LEGO displays in Seattle. Emerald City Comic Con is just two weeks away and for the second year in a row SEALUG will have all kinds of LEGO coolness for attendees to see.

And that’s not all — several LEGO vendors will be there too, including your’s truly!

I will be partnering with BrickShirts and AltBricks. So if you are attending, stop and say hi.

Not only that, but I will be giving a presentation at 3:20 pm in Hall C all about my career as a Freelance LEGO Artist.

But if you want to attend the Con, buy tickets soon. The full Con passes and Saturday passes are already sold out but Friday and Sunday are still available.

10240 – Red Five X-wing Starfighter

My interest in Star Wars isn’t what it was when LEGO came out with their first sets in 1999, so yet another X-Wing isn’t really my thing. Sure its big, its grand, and I’m positive many of you can’t wait to get your hands on it. I however, can’t get too excited, sorry.

Here’s the press release

10240 – Red Five X-wing Starfighter™
Ages 16+. 1,558 pieces.
Build the ultimate LEGO® Star Wars™ X-wing Starfighter!
US $199.99 CA $249.99 DE 199.99€ UK 169.99 £ DK 1699.00 DKK

Collect and create the most highly detailed LEGO® Star Wars™ X-wing Starfighter ever produced. This iconic starfighter is featured in many of the most exciting Star Wars battle scenes, including the decisive battle scene above planet Yavin™. Recreate the moment when Luke Skywalker’s X-wing delivered the proton torpedo that led to the destruction of the Imperial Death Star! With 1,558 pieces, this realistically detailed model features opening wings and cockpit, a special display stand, data sheet label and R2-D2.

Includes R2-D2 atromech droid
Features highly authentic detailing, and opening wings and cockpit
Includes 1558 pieces
Measures over 10″ (26cm) high, 20″ (52cm) long and 18″ (46cm) wide
Includes display stand and data sheet label!
Available for sale directly through LEGO® beginning
May 2013

And the video

One thing that did interest me about this set was the controversy of how this set was announced.

What I am much more interested in is the new Palace Cinema which I realize I haven’t posted anything about here on the blog yet. That will be in my next post.

Happy Valentine’s Day!

I know I haven’t been posting for the past few days and I apologize. I’ve been preparing for my upcoming shows and I have a lot of products that I have to get ready so I’ve been totally focused on making hundreds of key chains, earrings and necklaces.

Any how, Happy Valentine’s Day! I searched Flickr for some of the Valentine fun and found quite a mixture of cool photos to share.

Lets start off with this excellent photo by DVieytes. There isn’t really any building, but it doesn’t need it.

And then here’s a couple cute pics from Debbie Hickey

And then of course we have some built creations too by Tyler Sky

Frost

And Carl Merriam

Hope you have a happy Valentine’s day

For the birds

I like to feature builders that I haven’t seen before when I can. And Thomas Poulsom’s birds are an awesome find.

Birds aren’t the only thing on his Flickr stream, but he sure has a lot of them. Three whole sets dedicated to just LEGO birds!

And as you can see from these samples, they are many and they are varied.

I like the sense of movement and life he’s added to all his birds. As if they are just about to fly off and he’s captured a brief moment in time. I feel like I’ve gone to a nature preserve just looking at them.

Micro Planet Express

Good news Everyone! Okay Yaramanoglu has created a Micro Planet Express!

Yet another reason why I love Micro is seeing iconic TV shows like Futurama made really tiny.

Now if he just did the rest of New New York…Oh, wait, Matt De Lanoy already did that.

Giant Sushi!!!!

Need I say much more than that? Even the black “nori” (seaweed) are black baseplates. This is pretty epic in shear size and scale.

I guess Sean and Steph Mayo were pretty hungry after creating their Coral Reef. Which is equally epic!

Look at it in large size to get the full effect and all the complex building. I think one of my favorite part is the use of the clickits bracelets.

Monstrous Red Plated Beetle

I wouldn’t want to find this out side my room, at least not if it was real. But hey, this cool LEGO beetle by Bart De Dobbelaer is awesome!

This is just the latest in the Iron Builder contest.

Here’s a couple more he created

Keep it up Bart!

Lollipop Forest from Candy Land

This was one of those models that the thumbnail fooled me. I really thought that the lollipops were real and that only the base and figure were LEGO. Once I looked at the actual photo, I realized it was all LEGO and even the plastic coverings were poly bags from sets!

The model was made for the current Iron Builder contest between Siercon and Coral and Bart De Dobbelaer.

If you are not familiar with the Iron Builder challenges. Two builders are given a specific part and have a time frame to make multiple models with that part. You can read the details of this challenge here.

This is Bart De Dobbelaer’s first model for the contest:

Iron Builder Contests are always fun as the builders push themselves to the edge of building. I look forward to what other creations will emerge.